There will be a natural tendency to focus on the legal challenges and the political fights, but history will show the true story of how we achieved marriage equality and how it was in fact a quilt woven of thousands of personal tales, most of which existed entirely outside the courtroom.

I talked to Dustin Lance Black about this and his new play 8, which finally provides the actual words of the Prop 8 trial transcripts, first-hand observations of the courtroom drama, and interviews with the plaintiffs and their families.